At stake
in this election:
- 450 seats in the Verkhovna Rada
(parliament)
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Description
of government structure:
- Ukraine's unicameral legislature, the
Verkhovna Rada, is composed of 450 members serving four-year terms.
- 225 of the 450 seats in the Verkhovna
Rada are distributed in single-mandate constituencies acccording to majoritarian principles. The remaining 225 seats are distributed according to proportional principles.
- Parties must garner 4% of total
votes in order to participate in the distribution of seats.
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Results of the electoral race:
- Party:
Ukrainian Communist Party (KPU)
Leader: Petr SYMONENKO
Seats won in last election: 90
Seats won in this election: 124
- Party:
Ukrainian People's Movement for Restructuring (RUKH)
Leader: Vyacheslav CHORNOVIL
Seats won in last election: 20
Seats won in this election: 46
- Party: Bloc
of Socialist and Peasants Party
Leader: Oleksandr MOROZ
Seats won in last election: 34
Seats won in this election: 35
- Party:
People's Democratic Party
Leader: Valeriy PUSTOVOITENKO
Seats won in last election: 0
Seats won in this election: 28
- Party:
Hromada Party
Leader: Pavlo LAZARENKO
Seats won in last election: 0
Seats won in this election: 23
- Party: Green
Party of Ukraine
Leader: Vitaliy M. KONONOV
Seats won in last election: 0
Seats won in this election: 19
- Party: Social
Democratic Party of Ukraine (United)
Leader: Leonid KRAVCHUK
Seats won in last election: 0
Seats won in this election: 18
- Party:
Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine
Leader: Natalia VITRENKO
Seats won in last election: 0
Seats won in this election: 17
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When was
the last election? Number of seats in last election?
- Parliamentary elections were last held on
March 27, 1994
- 450 seats were decided in the last election
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Population
and number of registered voters:
- Population: 50,447,719
- Number of registered voters: 38,488,212
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Of Interest:
- Over thirty political parties were active
for the May 1998 elections.
- The May 1998 election was the first in which a
mixed system of elections was used.
- The May 1998 election was the first
election in which voters will vote directly for political parties.
- Unlike the March 1994 election, which took
several months to administer, the May 1998 parliamentary election did make use of turnout thresholds.
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| SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ELECTION SYSTEMS (IFES) |
| For additional information:
IFES ElectionGuide Online |
